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Apprehensive about publishing on Kindle? Or wishing to Do-It-Yourself, instead of paying someone for that service?

Learn how to format and publish your novel or nonfiction on Kindle through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) site. You will be guided through the process on the KDP website. At the end of this workshop, you will be able to publish your novel or nonfiction on Kindle.

The editor Janice Hussein has published through Kindle and CreateSpace. An example of her work in this area is the memoir, Love Those Horses, Follow Your Dream by Janet Louise Adler—Janice did the editing, formatting, interior design, and cover design, as well as the photo formatting for this book. (If you plan to have photographs in your work, you will learn in the workshop how to format your pictures and upload them to KDP.)

Janice is a freelance editor with 13 years of editing experience, and 17 years of copyediting/proofreading experience. She has 2 master's degrees--an MS in writing/publishing, and an MBA. From 2004-2007, she worked for Literary Agent Natasha Kern, reading queries, editing, copyediting, and co-writing submission critiques. She is also a freelance writer, with articles on the writing craft and related topics published through major national writing publications.

New Fiction Class is offered Sept 19th in Portland, Oregon: The first class in the 3-part series of The Keys of Fiction: The 3 P's of Creating Characters.

Click over to the Workshop page for further details.

Contact me through email or my Contact page here on the website.

Document Driven - Editing, workshops, & classes for every writer.

Credentials:

Master's degree in Publishing/Writing

Master's degree in Business

Studied with Literary Agent & Freelance fiction editor.

Internship at S & S imprint.

Testimonial:

"Janice has an eye for detail and tackles every word to make the book what it needs to be: perfect." Delilah Marvelle, Lady of Pleasure (School of Gallantry).

Flexible editing plans available for your novel. Click on the Fiction Services webpage.

For further information on these classes, see the Workshops & Classes page.

Sample Edit Available:First 5 pages for free.

Full Editing: Editing can begin with an agreement to edit just the first 50 pages of a novel. That agreement includes payment for just those pages. Then if both parties agree to proceed, editing will continue.

(see Fiction Services page)

This past summer 2013, I presented a workshop called Your Protagonist: Sympathetic or Unsympathetic, at the Willamette Writers Conference, in Portland Oregon.

Last fall 2012, I presented workshops at Wordstock Festival in Portland, Oregon, and at the 27th Annual Write on the Sound Conference, in Edmonds, Washington.

Took the month of August off from writing this blog. Hope to see everyone back in September 2012!!

7/20/12: Writing Conflict - some shoulds and shouldn'ts

7/21/11: Character Arc: Part 3"

What we do to our characters...

7/14/11: "Bringing Your Characters into Focus: Part 2"

Revealing Character.

7/7/11: "﻿Characterization: Part 1"﻿

Creating characters that "ring true."

6/29/11: "Writer's Block: Shift to Writing Mode."

Don't take the detour--10 suggestions to avoid writer's block.

The Book Business

Publishing House editors no longer have as much time to work with an author as they did in the past--in the publishing era of Max Perkins. In those days, the editor would mentor the writers and their work, acting as champion and guide in all stages of editing and publishing.

Increasingly, the consulting editor, as an intermediary between the author and the acquisitions editor and/or agent, helps to prepare and polish the manuscript so that it has a greater chance of being accepted for publication.

With the advent of self-publishing--indie publishing--the role of editor has become key in a partnership between writer and editor to produce the best and most professional work possible.

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--Delle JacobsSINS OF THE HEARTADVENTURE as rich as gold * LOVE as delicious as chocolatewww.dellejacobs.com

Fiction specialties:

Mainstream

Short Stories

Young Adult

Women's Fiction

Romance

Literary

Science Fiction

Historical Fiction

Mystery/Suspense

Thrillers

Christian Fiction

Novellas

Nonfiction specialties:

Self-Help

History

Women's

Art

Business

Spiritual

Health & Fitness

Travel

Psychology

Law

Memoir

About Document Driven:

Offers a sample edit of one to two pages from the manuscript to be edited.

Will provide an estimate on how long the work requires, subject to plus or minus 10 percent.

Offers an editing plan prior to signing a contract.

If desired by an author, Document Driven will provide a written contract specifying payment timing and amounts, what kind of editing will be performed, how cancellations will be handled, and a clear definition of any editing terminology.

"Lines ...From Tintern Abbey" by Wordsworth:

Therefore am I stillA lover of the meadows and the woods,And mountains; and of all that we beholdFrom this green earth; of all the mighty worldOf eye, and ear, both what they half create,And what perceive; well pleased to recogniseIn nature and the language of the sense,The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soulOf all my moral being.

Please preview my article: "Razor Sharp(ening) Dialogue" on Amazon:

Two of my articles on craft have been published in the 2013 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market.

To read part of my article, "Razor Sharp(ening) Dialogue," here's a link to Amazon's "Look Inside" feature for that book and article.

More of my articles on craft and publishing are listed on the Fiction Services page.

Book Editing

Editing not only produces a revised & polished manuscript, fiction or nonfiction, which is ready to be published, but the process of editing with an experienced editor teaches writers how to write better, and the fiction writer learns the craft faster--the process teaches them so many of the needed tools for writing, for putting together a work of nonfiction or fiction--whether a novel, novella or short story.

The Editor's writing:

In October 2012, my latest short, short story,

"That Other Doorway," was published in an online anthology. It has been called brilliant, charming, & extremely clever. What do you think?

The Harvest From Earth's Palette: an essay --

The short story is based on a real person, and on an occurrence that happens at the Gorge White House, in Hood River, OR. It was fun to write, and my objective was to be entertaining.

The Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River, OR, had their 2011 Plein-Air Write-Out in August. Their online Anthology, where the short story (and essay) is published, is now "live," as of 10-1-11.

For the Write-Out, the parameters for writing were that any piece would be about 500 words, and all work must be turned in by the end of the 5 days of the Write-Out. So I decided to take the challenge to write a short story--in 500 words. In this case, I had about 2 days to write it and, of course, had to come up with a quick idea for the story; this one presented itself.

Last year (2010) I wrote something serious, the essay, so this year I wanted to do an imitation of the opposite--and so, the short story.

My articles:

Title: "Which Arc Are We On,"

published in

The Writer's Digest's 2011 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market.

(Available Since August.)

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Title: "THE UNSYMPATHETIC PROTAGONIST,"

published in

The Writer's Digest's 2010 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market.

See the first page excerpt,page 46 of this article, on The Smart Writer webpage.